Surreal isnt the word

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2002)

The one thing about this entire movie which makes you sit up in your chair or even slump down in avoidance is the overwhelming feeling of emptiness and initial feeling of lonliness. As Jim walks around central London completely alone the audience begins to feel an air of unease. The scariest thing is that in the back of your mind you beleive that some day this could happen.

The movie has taken fair amounts of criticism and prise for the way Danny Boyle decided to shoot the movie Digitally. To me this was a masterstroke, it creates a feeling of unease in the sense its all a little uncomfortable and goes well with the flow of the movie.
The only thing that I feel let the movie down was he soldiers toward the end of the film. They were TOO squaddie like in the sense they were overbearingly boyish. I have friends in the army i know what theyre like and even they arent that obnoxious.
The cast do well with a good script and a brilliant concept, one that I think is amongst the best ideas to come out of the movie world for a long time. Its an old adage, "Virus wipes out the population" but the way it was done this time in "28 Days Later" had a different feel to the virus movie genre.
I think this movie is the best British film since "Trainspotting", another Boyle masterpeice. I highly recommend it to anybody and if you are one of those people like me who were interested but didnt go and see it immediately, I strongly suggest you do.
Rating 9/10